Erased...

[swjam]

A timely story. why? this happened to CP recently? :omg:

I am a SysAdmin, I battle my own daemons.

[arhhook]

Reformatting doesn't necessarily remove all information. Even if there was a reformat, it may be recoverable. They should check out DriveSavers[^]

[code frog 0]

The thing that gets me is that in every account I read of this there was no mention of rebuiling the MFT (total cost involved 10 hours) or of sending the drive off for data recovery. I've done this with several drives for clients at a total cost of $6000 which is a lot cheaper than $200,000. I'm often left with the feeling that IT stands for idiot technologists because I really feel like 20% of smart people in IT spend 100% of their time recovering from the damage done by the 80% of idiots in IT. I'll bet you money nobody even tried either of those two recoveries. $200,000 they could have sent me. I could have pocketed $194,000 sent them their data back on DVD and been a lot happier than I am now.:doh:

[Gary Wheeler]

That's probably the rule rather than the exception.

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Software Zen: delete this;

[S Douglas]

Gary Wheeler wrote:

That's probably the rule rather than the exception.

Sad but true...:sigh:

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I'd love to help, but unfortunatley I have prior commitments monitoring the length of my grass. :Andrew Bleakley:

[ednrgc]

Before sending them out, just try a piece of software like O&O DiskRecovery. It works great.

[Marcus J Smith]

S Douglas wrote:

That's it? Just two types of back ups, neither of which where routinely tested?

Thats state government for ya! ;P

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CleaKO

"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)

[Marcus J Smith]

code-frog wrote:

I'm often left with the feeling that IT stands for idiot technologists because I really feel like 20% of smart people in IT spend 100% of their time recovering from the damage done by the 80% of idiots in IT.

Just remember they had Dell involved with this........

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CleaKO

"I think you'll be okay here, they have a thin candy shell. 'Surprised you didn't know that.'" - Tommy (Tommy Boy)
"Fill it up again! Fill it up again! Once it hits your lips, it's so good!" - Frank the Tank (Old School)

[Grimolfr]

You must've missed the part where they paid Microsoft and Dell $71,000 to try to recover the data.

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Grim

(aka Toby)

MCDBA, MCSD, MCP+SB

Need a Second Life?[^]

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[code frog 0]

Yeah! I've worked with Dell too.:rolleyes:

[Agustin M Rodriguez]

of course we know the ending: "...and to the technician we wish him well in future endeavors....."